Hi Iain :) > Hi Ian, Iain here! > > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 08:03 +0000, Ian Porter wrote: >> > >> > I am just wondering if there is an option within emerge that will >> > tell me which packages need to be re-compiled >> > [ R ] > > recompiled? generally you don't need to "recompile" packages.
Oh soz, thought that "R" meant re-compile. sorry. > yup, I'm using the rt2500-1.1.0_beta3. Funnily, I couldn't get the > download from the web to work but the gentoo emerge worked, thanks > gentoo!! lspci for me shows: Great, I shall download that with gentoo (thanks from me as well for when I am :) > > $ lspci > 0000:00:08.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus > Reference Card (rev 01) > > $ lspci -n > 0000:00:08.0 Class 0280: 1814:0201 (rev 01) > >> > Because I have just updated the wpa_supplicant and now my wireless >> > card is not working but found out that baselayout, ndiswrapper and >> > wpa_supplicant are all saying that they need to be re-compiled, but >> > everytime that I re-emerge them >> > emerge wpa_supplicant, it still says that it is needs to be >> > re-compiled. > > It might be helpful if you supply the exact command you're trying to > use, and a sample of the output. It may be that you should be doing > something slightly different. umm.. I am not at the PC at the minute, but I think it is something like iwconfig wlan0 up to bring up the wlan0 with the ndiswrapper (I assume ?) and it is stopping on this, the pc just hangs and I have to restart the pc(button on case :() have not tried ssh'ing to see if it is just the console that is hanging, I should have really tried that as well soz. > Everything will say it needs to be recompiled if you say > `emerge -p <package>` > however, what you probably want to do is > `emerge -up <package>` > oh ok, thanks I was wondering why most packages appear to be needing re-compiling. thanks. > This tells you there is a new version available. Provided you've done > `emerge --sync` Yeah, I usually do this most days :) > > even better would be > `emerge -upD world` > followed by a > `revdep-rebuild` > if kernel / gcc / major things like that have changed. > I have done this as well, and only got the OO package, but with the information from someone else on this list (thanks but forgot your name), I shall not have OO in the revdep-rebuild list :) >> > I am not able to sort out the problem until next week, but thought >> > that I would ask so that I have a few things to check out once I am >> > back online. > > Sorry if you know all this already, I'm kinda guessing as to what > you're trying to do. > Yeah, thanks, I shall try the rt2500 version instead of ndiswrapper to see if that is able to bring up the wireless card, btw do you use wpa_supplicant with the rt2500 driver ? Thanks Ian > HTH, > -- > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
